Jazz music is the real deal.
Apparently Jazz is now considered high art and the average person has trouble understanding it.
Jazz standards are our contribution to music history.
Jazz is not to be sliced into bites by mass marketing geniuses who assume we are mindless cattle.
Jazz music is our original American culture.
There’s a spiritual satisfaction that one gets from listening and playing good Jazz.
The expression of freedom that is Jazz improvisation mirrors the ethos of the best parts of society.
Beiderbecke took out a silver cornet, put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying ‘yes.’
It’s true I’ve always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.
When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.
I am only a mixture of countless influences and thanks to that I am able to find my own style of playing.
I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.
He almost adds a Chet-like sound to it.
I guess what everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved. And to know that you loved me for my singing is too much for me. Forgive me if I don’t have all the words. Maybe I can sing it and you’ll understand.
Living is easy with eyes closed.
I like to sleep. There is no set time of day for sleep. You sleep when you’re tired and that’s all there is to it.
The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it’s still a melody.
I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
The hidden things, the subconscious that lies in the body and lets you know: You feel this, you play this.
Music is the tool to express life – and all that makes a difference.
I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It’s not that I don’t want to work with people, but I do just love doing my own thing.
I’m sure critics have their purpose, and they’re supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what he did.
